Chapter - 2: Customizing and Embedding

Multimedia Components in Web Pages

Q1. Define multimedia and its various types?

Multimedia is the media that uses multiple forms of information content and
information processing (eg. text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity) to
inform or entertain the user. It also refers to the use of electronic media to store and
experience multimedia content.
The various types of multimedia are pictures, music, sound, videos , films,
animations.

Q2. Advantage and Disadvantage of multimedia in web pages?

Advantages & Disadvantages of Using Multimedia on Web Pages:
Advantages:
1. Greater Immersion: Adding multimedia elements to a Web page make it
easier to draw in viewers
2. Enhanced Page Rankings for SEO: While the value of multimedia remains
controversial in the search engine optimization world, surveys conducted by
Forrester Research indicate that video content, done correctly, is a major
benefit to a site's overall SEO strategy.
3. Better Branding:multimedia sites are frequently preferred by marketing
departments because of their ability to completely present branding.
Disadvantages:
1. Potential Damage to Search Engine Rankings
2. Loading Times: While the days of measuring page load times on a slow,
dial-up modem are over, multimedia content still takes longer to load than
static content.
3. Compatibility: Every browser can display at least some subset of HTML.
Multimedia elements not as widely supported

Q3. Why do we need an internet browser? Also explain web pages?

A web browser is a software application for accessing information on the
World Wide Web. When a user requests a web page from a particular
 website, the web browser retrieves the necessary content from a web server
and then displays the page on the user's device.
Q4. List 5 internet browsers which support multimedia
Google Chrome – Overall top web browser. ...
Mozilla Firefox – Best Chrome alternative. ...
Microsoft Edge Chromium – Best browser for Windows 10. ...
Opera – Browser that prevents cryptojacking. ...
Brave web browser
Chromium – Open Source Chrome alternative

Q5. Write the Full form of HTML and XML.

Full form of HTML is Hyper Text markup language and XML is extensible
markup language.

Q6. How can you differentiate between music, image and sound data without
open?
By looking at the extension

Q7. Why do today's web sites contain more and more multimedia?
1. Greater Immersion: Adding multimedia elements to a Web page make
it easier to draw in viewers
2. Enhanced Page Rankings for SEO: While the value of multimedia
remains controversial in the search engine optimization world, surveys
conducted by Forrester Research indicate that video content, done
correctly, is a major benefit to a site's overall SEO strategy.
3. Better Branding:multimedia sites are frequently preferred by
marketing departments because of their ability to completely present
branding.
Q8. Write tags which are used to add images in a web page?
<img src> tag

Q9. Write tags used to add audio file in web page?

Non standard way
Internet Explorer - <bgsound> tag
Netscape - <embed>
Standard way - <object> tag

Q10. Write tags used in to add video file in web page?

<iframe> - youtube video
<object> - facebook video
<video> - HTML5 video

Q11. Write tags used in to add flash file in web page?

<object> tag and <embed> tag

Q12. What is CSS and what are the current version available of it?
Cascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used for describing the
presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. CSS is a
cornerstone technology of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and JavaScript.
CSS3 is the latest version of CSS.